This has happened to others who can prove their American Indian ancestry through records. When you go back several generations, you can have ancestors whom you inherited no DNA from (but you wouldn’t exist if they had not existed and had children). Plus the DNA ethnic analyses by the DNA companies are not infallible—I have wildly different estimates from different companies (and supposed ancestry from unbelievable places). Also, very small percentages of a particular ethnic or racial origin are not reliable...they could be zero.
Thanks.
I totally agree with your perspective.
“When you go back several generations, you can have ancestors whom you inherited no DNA from (but you wouldn’t exist if they had not existed and had children)!”
I just rescanned a great little book on this issue:
‘Finding the treasures left along the trail.’
‘My Cherokee Heritage’ by Iris Stout.
She did a fantastic job and has great data. One thing is the copies of letters from the Secretary of War to the various chiefs explaining how they lost their home lands to our
government: appendix A:
A Decade ago one of my DNA relatives discussed the loss of land and basically no payments with a lawyer relative not related to me, that opening the books if still around on that issue would cause a lot of pain and remorse.